Sentence examples for best fact from inspiring English sources

The best fact so far: Mick Jagger donated the remote control dimmer system for the lights.

"A Great Fall" won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for best "fact crime" book in 1971.

And now for the best fact ever: the Blackout blagged their way on to Limp Bizkit's 2010 European tour, just by sitting on Twitter and tweeting "duuuuude" at Fred Durst for days on end.

In nonfiction, "The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives," edited by Otto Penzler, won in the critical-biographical category, and Dave Cullen took the prize for best "fact crime" for "Columbine," his account of the 1999 shootings at that Colorado high school.

Among other Edgar winners were "Country of Origin" (W.W. Norton) by Don Lee, chosen best first novel by an American author; "The Confession" (Hard Case Crime) by Domenic Stansberry, best paperback original; and "Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective's 20-Year Search for Justice" (Regan Books) by Leonard Levitt, best fact crime.

Howells's own best "fact" writing about New York, the many essays that, through the first two decades of the twentieth century, he wrote for the ill-named "Easy Chair" column in Harper's, are, as Goodman and Dawson rightly say, an ur-source of much New York writing, including the old "Talk of the Town" tone in this magazine, and ought to be collected and reprinted.

The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post have done some of the best fact-challenging work in recent days.

In lieu of a list of my favorite books of 2015, then, here are some of the best facts I learned from books I read this year.

"We believe that the first prosecutions should occur in those jurisdictions that provide the best law, the best facts and the best range of available penalties," Mr. Ashcroft said.

It started a week earlier in Istanbul where, amid the blue-tiled solemnity of the Topkapi Palace, I took a deep breath, adopted my best facts-of-life voice, and blustered through harems and eunuchs.

The best facts I learned from books in 2015: Those wrinkles you get in your fingers and toes after a long bath are basically rain treads, and other facts from books, via The New Yorker.